Search Dog, Megan, and her handler were called to assist the police search the Goyt Valley for a missing person.
This was a large scale search carried out over two days at the weekend, and involved several Mountain Rescue Teams, with water units, plus Search Dogs from various parts of the country. Please see post for team call-out on same dates.
A major search was launched in the Goyt Valley when Cheshire Police discovered the car of a man whose welfare they had cause to be concerned about.
The missing man, Kevin Bird, 51, was reported missing from home in Poynton earlier in the day. A police helicopter was tasked to search the area around Errwood and Fernilee reservoirs and police officers from both Cheshire and Derbyshire Constabularies started a search in the immediate vicinity around Errwood Hall.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, which was fundraising in Castleton at the time, was called out at 1.00 pm and provided thirty volunteers and four search …
A joint Edale Buxton snatch squad was called at lunch-time to assist the ambulance service for an injured walker.
The casualty, a 65 year old man, was part of a walking group from m Chesterfield. They set off to walk along the edge just above Surprise View.
The weather was cold and underfoot conditions were icy. The man slipped over a rock, sustaining a head injury. This made him inactive and confused. He was treated on site by paramedics, and then carried on a mountain rescue stretcher for about 200 metres over moorland to a waiting air ambulance.
The casualty was airlifted to …
A joint Buxton Edale snatch squad was called to the hillside near Mam Tor late afternoon to assist the Ambulance Service with an injured person.
The casualty, a woman from Nottingham who was celebrating her 60th birthday, slipped whilst walking on the saturated, muddy footpath. She sustained a suspected fracture of the femur and was in great pain. Paramedics and team members treated her on scene. She was then carried by stretcher c. 400m to a waiting ambulance.
The casualty was taken to hospital for further treatment.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team assembled to search the edge path of Kinder for a party of walkers, lost at height in darkness and heavy rain. It was the teams fourth call out of the day. A dog unit from Edale also attended, having been involved in and still present from the previous call-out.
The benighted group, from Oxfordshire, consisted of 3 adults and a 12 year old. The rescue team was able to use an approximate grid reference to commence their search, worked out by converting lat/longitude data from a mobile phone belonging to the lost group. The group was located …